December 14th, 2001

I had a hectic week in office. Work gets piled up, assigned from here as well as from India.

A typical scenario would look like this: One fine Saturday morning, when I wake up and am about to brush teeth, I get a feeling that I should check my mails. I startup the machine and see couple of interesting mails which typically would look like below:

So, I sit down and start typing the status of the bug. Ofcourse, it requires lot of humor sense to reply to mails.

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The only other significant thing happened this week was that I broke my apartment key on last Sunday. I turned it in the opposite direction and it broke immediately. Fortunately I had another key, so could get in the building. After getting in, I started thinking what I should have done if I didn't have the other key. It was snowing outside, I had no car to go anywhere, I don't have a mobile phone to make a phone call to anybody, so and so on...So next day I got another key set from the lease office.

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After being in the US for few weeks, I am afraid I am getting some of the conversational habits of the US. That loud "HaHhaHha" laugh, telling the meaningless "That's Great" for virtually anything, pronouncing "do" as "Dooduddudduddu" etc. etc.. (They speak the first "do" and then think and compose what to tell after that, and fill in the gaps with "do"s spoken with high frequency).

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I used Deepika "e-kathu" to send mails to my parents in Malayalam. It was interesting. It is comparatively easier to type than the other Malayalam software I have used, since it uses transliteration.